Trail riding

Apart from all the guinea pig drama, I had some of the best moments yet with Crispin during those last two or three weeks. We finally hit the trails for real and he has been nothing but great! I'm totally thrilled with his trail qualities.

We have some really nice trails here but none of them are easy to get to. There is always the Autobahn to cross *scarry*



and the the Canal.



Plus there is usually a lot going on (Boats, Biker, Dogs, Cars... you name it). Unfortunately, in the past Crispin was already super excited just to leave the property as it was, without needing any more distractions or scarry stuff to wind him up even more. I guess that's basically why it took me so long to really go out there.

But after being quite excited at the start of every single trail ride it seems that all he really needed was just a few more real trail rides to figure out this whole trial riding thing. By now he's mostly relaxed from the start. He walks, trots and canters without any problems and is happy and relaxed no matter where he goes (the middle, the end or even the front). On our last ride he even lead over the Autobahn!